The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Thin plates OF metal IN tho backs
of books are a new London notion.
There il plot afoot to crush polser
in Europe. The 81. James Gazette and
also certain officials arc encouraging IL.
Out of 700,OO0,0O0 passengers on
British railways last year only 100 were
killed; in addition S57 employees. tres
passurs, or suicides were killed.
British Guianca is making large
shipments of gold to England, and tho
prospects arc that the shipments will
rival in value the great exports of
sugar, molasses and rum.
Two years ago Baroness Alquier
left 81 100000 to the City of Paris for an
asylum to be named after hcr. Tho
municipality has now purchased . park
of 27j acres and will erect the asylum
therein.
Herr William Hcrz. tho famous
Berlin manufacturer of ladies' Cloaks,
recently celebrated the completion of
the 1O0.O0Oth cloak of this scason's
make with u grand banquet 10 all his
employees.
"A most astonishing phenomenon of
the japanese earthquake was tho split
ting of the Paupundayang mountain.
In u flash of time it was split into seven
parts Where tho lone mountain had
stood, loomed up seven peaks, each
some seven thousand feet high.
The discovery of now variety of
coflee-plant in West Africa is reported.
The berry greatly resembles that of
Arabia in appearance and flavor but
grows on rapidly developing and very
productive tree nearly seven feet high
instead of on shrub
An experiment was recently made
of u female omnibus conductor on the
new line between Pccadilly Circus and
Kings Gross. She only lasted day.
Most probably she met with an offer of
marriage and closed her connection
with one bus to get another as logiti-
matc.-London Court journal.
"A strange effect of light transmitted
through solution of sulphate of quin-
inc upon the blossoming of plants has
been made known by Sachs. From u
series of experiments he has shown thai
plants terminated and grown under
the influence of such light, while thriv-
ing otherwise, develop only small. inn
perfect and speedily pcrishable flowers.
Light transmitted in u similar way
through pure water impaired in no way
the blossoming powers.
Fred Archer is still talked about.
While at Newmarket the other day the
Prince of Wales made a pilgrimage to
his grave. where he sent for Archer's
sister and baby daughter and sympa-
thizcd with them. Patriotic indigna-
tion has been expressed because French
papers have said that English ladies
loved Archer for his fine eyes as we'll
rs for his riding. A proposition to
pcrpctuate his memory by founding q
reading and reception room for stable
men and boys at Newmarket is meeting
with much favor.
In the vault of the Capucine Church
Mt Vienna, where tho Austrian sovcr-
egns have found their tombs, is a
splendid and enormous sarcophagus
raised by Joseph ii. over the remains
of his mother, Maria Theresa, and at
its foot plain iron box, in which are
the bones of Joseph himself, with tho
inscription, often repeated by him in
life: ~ have got SO far that love
nothing on earth except my mother
and the State Near by is the tomb
of the unfortunate Maximilian of
Mexico. by the side of which the EN-
peror often spends an hour in mcdita-
tion and prayer.